Manuel Jimenes

Manuel Jimenes (14 January 1808-22 December 1854) was President of the Dominican Republic from 8 September 1848 to 29 May 1849, succeeding Pedro Santana and preceding Buenaventura Baez.

Biography
Manuel Jimenes was born in Baracoa, Cuba in 1808, the son of Dominican refugees who fled during Toussaint Louverture's occupation of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo. During the nascent years of the Dominican Republic, he served as Minister of War and Marine Matters under President Pedro Santana, and, when Santana relinquished power in 1848, Jimenes assumed the presidency. He was unable to halt the Haitian army when it invaded that year during the Dominican War of Independence; he called on Santana to repel the invasion, and, after Santana defeated the Haitians, he seized power from Jimenes. His son Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra would go on to become President.